Milo Yiannopoulos turns on his alt-right fans

Milo Yiannopoulos accused his followers of failing to support him when his speeches are cancelledLUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS

The British “free-speech celebrity” Milo Yiannopoulos has lashed out at fans on Facebook, accusing them and the right-wing media of betraying him.

The 33-year-old alt-right polemicist and former editor of Breitbart Tech was furious when fans criticised a video he had posted that showed him eating crabs and having a cocktail. One wrote: “This lifestyle is why you’re not doing your promised podcasts and losing subscribers. Where did our old Milo go?”

Yiannopoulos was recently barred from speaking at a number of events. He wrote: “Over the past three years I have spent literally millions of dollars trying to do talks, speeches, events, rallies and protests, to say nothing of all the stuff I do behind the scenes . . . A lot of that money was my…

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